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Recently, workers’ bargaining power has been declining worldwide, and immigrant-native wage inequalities have been widening. In this context, cross-sectional studies show narrower immigrant–native wage gaps in firms with works councils or collective agreements. Yet, it remains unclear whether this correlation is causal. Leveraging German longitudinal linked employer–employee data covering 542 firms and 878,403 employee observations, we investigate whether collective agreements and works councils narrow within-firm immigrant–native wage gaps especially for disadvantaged immigrant groups, that is, immigrants from non-Western countries. Using firm-fixed effects with double-demeaned interaction effects, we find no evidence that works councils narrow immigrant–native wage gaps. However, collective agreements narrow immigrant–native wage gaps for immigrants from non-Western countries by 62.0 per cent but do not affect immigrants from Western countries. Overall, our results indicate that immigrant–native wage inequalities for disadvantaged immigrant groups in Germany would not have widened by 23.6 per cent if collective agreements remained as prevalent as in 1996.

How introduction programs help and hinder refugee integration: evidence from Norway 98.8

Edit Bugge, Sara Wallace Goodman, Marte Nordanger

✨ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Immigration Voice: Political Navigation Beyond the Ballot 98.7

Viacheslav Eniutin

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As globalization decouples citizenship from geography and institutional responsiveness, individuals increasingly seek alternative forms of political alignment. This article introduces the concept of Immigration Voice: a framework for interpreting cross-border mobility as a patterned response to perceived legitimacy deficits—not merely as exit or escape, but as a mode of institutional re-selection. Departing from Hirschman’s classic notion of “exit” as silent withdrawal, Immigration Voice emphasizes the comparative dimension of relocation: when electoral mechanisms lose effectiveness and feedback loops erode, migration flows may register as aggregated preferences for alternative institutional environments. Under specific conditions of scale and narrative coherence, such movements can constitute externally observable indicators of institutional credibility. Grounded in comparative political theory and informed by empirical migration patterns, the article frames Immigration Voice both as a conceptual lens and as a potential metric of democratic behavior in asymmetrical political environments. Rather than being peripheral to political life, the spatial reorientation of civic preference has become increasingly central to how legitimacy and agency are contested in the twenty-first century. While this article outlines the conditions under which migration might serve as a comparative indicator of institutional legitimacy, the proposed metric remains a conceptual framework for future empirical research Keywords: Immigration voice, political agency, immigration, migration, institutional legitimacy, democratic participation, comparative indicator, spatial politics. JEL Classification: F22, P16, D72, H11, Z13.

Bridging Governance Gaps: The Role of Alternative Learning Centers in Sabah, Malaysia, as Repertoires of Migration Governance 98.2

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth. We study refugees in Switzerland who come from French- or Italian-speaking countries and who, upon arrival, are randomly allocated to different cantons in which either German, French, or Italian is the dominant language. Children born to mothers who were exogenously allocated to a region whose dominant language matches their origin language are, on average, 72 grams (or 2.2 percent) heavier. Further analyses suggest that this effect is likely driven by information about health-related behavior and services. Coethnic networks, however, can partly compensate for communication barriers. (JEL I12, J13, J15, J16, Z13)

Paying a Premium Only in Native Neighborhoods: The Role of Migrant Share in Shaping Housing Price Differentials in the Netherlands 96.1

Weiyi Cao, Nico Heerink, Eveline van Leeuwen

✨ Population Space and Place

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Understanding housing price differentials across nativity, gender, or racial groups is crucial because housing costs influence economic well‐being, wealth accumulation, and long‐term security. While extensively studied in the U.S., similar research is limited in Europe. This study extends U.S. analyses of racial disparities to examine nativity disparities in the Netherlands by investigating intra‐ and inter‐neighborhood price differentials among migrant, mixed, and native households using pooled data from the 2015 and 2018 Housing Research Netherlands surveys. Classifying neighborhoods as native, mixed, and migrant, the study identifies both similarities and differences with the U.S. context. First, negative associations between migrant shares and housing prices are more pronounced in native neighborhoods than in mixed or migrant neighborhoods. Second, upward tipping points driving price increases as migrant shares rise are not observed in the Dutch context; instead, downward tipping effects are identified. Additionally, intra‐neighborhood price differentials vary across the three neighborhood types. Migrant households in native neighborhoods pay, on average, 7.83% more for housing compared to native households, while no such premiums are observed in mixed neighborhoods or among mixed households. These findings highlight the influence of neighborhood migrant or native shares in shaping price differentials, suggesting mechanisms such as housing discrimination and limited bargaining power faced by migrant households. The study underscores the need for further research, such as utilizing repeat‐sales transaction data, to more precisely identify the causes behind these housing price disparities in the Netherlands.

Integration or Exclusion? The Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Composition of US Schools Attended by Mexican-Origin Youth 96.0

Launched by President Putin to ostensibly “protect” the people living in the predominantly Russian-speaking Eastern regions, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 produced the largest population displacement in Europe since World War II. Using unique data from a rapidly deployed online survey conducted throughout Ukraine and Europe from April to July 2022 (N = 7,974), this study examines how language and exposure to violence may have influenced trajectories of forced migration shortly after Russia's invasion. By exploiting the timing of the survey, it examines how contextual and conflict-specific factors shaped the (un)certainty of migration movements and beliefs about return. Results show that exposure to conflict in the form of witnessing or being injured by a blast explosion was associated with shorter-distance moves within Ukraine. Findings suggest disparate trajectories of displacement by language identities. Although the survey was only available in Ukrainian, and did not include those who fled (or were deported) to Russia, Ukrainian respondents who reported speaking Russian as both their “native” and “home” language (25% of the sample) had the highest probability of relocating to nonbordering countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom. Independent of their origin and destination, Russian-speakers were also more likely to be in transit or uncertain about their destination, and less hopeful about a potential return. Thus, Russia's invasion created profound uncertainty for Russian-speaking Ukrainians and appears to have pushed them even farther away.

Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany 55.0

En América Latina, existe un creciente consenso sobre el aumento de la diversidad religiosa en la región y la necesidad de reformar los modelos de laicidad tradicionales —históricamente diseñados para contrarrestar la hegemonía católica— en atención a dicha pluralidad. Este capítulo matiza y complejiza dicho diagnóstico rastreando la evolución de las direcciones de asuntos religiosos en México, desde las reformas legales de 1992 hasta las decisiones recientes del gobierno de López Obrador de colaborar con organizaciones interreligiosas en proyectos de construcción de paz. El capítulo examina cómo estas oficinas están vinculadas tanto a tensiones religiosas locales como a movimientos internacionales por la libertad religiosa, que redefinen la religión como categoría de gobernanza secular. Mediante observación participante, entrevistas, análisis multivariado e investigación de archivo, identifico patrones regionales en la implementación de políticas mexicanas sobre religión. Moldeadas por conflictos históricos entre católicos y protestantes-evangélicos, estas políticas relegan a minorías no cristianas que no se corresponden con concepciones dominantes sobre las “religiones del mundo”, pese a justificaciones que apelan a la diversidad. El capítulo destaca la subestimada influencia protestante en las leyes mexicanas y su papel en la configuración de estas oficinas. Ancladas en narrativas de paz, estas políticas fortalecen a ciertos grupos religiosos mientras marginan a otros, y marcan un giro hacia un secularismo de inspiración protestante en América Latina.

The interactions of social norms about climate change: Science, institutions and economics 11.8

Antonio Cabrales, Manu García, David Ramos Muñoz, Angel Sánchez

📚 European Economic Review

Paruresis, or "shy bladder syndrome," is classified as a social anxiety disorder in Western psychiatry (American Psychiatric Association 2013). This study challenges its medicalization through a medical anthropology framework, integrating cross-cultural analysis and evolutionary insights on privacy-seeking behaviors. Employing qualitative synthesis, we argue paruresis is a rational human response to environmental stressors, rooted in evolved instincts for privacy during elimination and shaped by culturally specific restroom designs. Comparing Western norms with privacy-focused designs in Japan, Islamic societies, Scandinavia, and Akan communities in Ghana, we critique how Western architectures exacerbate anxiety. Recent evidence highlights health risks from inadequate restroom privacy and benefits of inclusive designs (Taylor et al. 2024; Archova Visuals 2025). Drawing on embodiment (Csordas 1990), biopolitics (Foucault 1995), and habitus (Bourdieu 1977), we propose culturally sensitive restroom reforms, contributing to medical anthropology’s critique of biomedical paradigms and public health policy.

Indirect genetic effects among neighbors promote cooperation and accelerate adaptation in a small-scale human society 5.0

Launched in December 2019, the European Green Deal (EGD) represents the European Union’s (EU) ambitious policy framework to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. This study employs a sentiment analysis of 582,156 tweets from the beginning of 2020 to April 2024 to understand the evolution of public sentiment toward the EGD. Grounded in Social Representations Theory and Framing Theory, we analyze sentiment trends, topic distributions, and the impact of key policy and external events (e.g. COVID-19 spread) on public sentiment. The results reveal predominantly neutral sentiment (61.68%), with more positive (28.26%) than negative (10.06%) sentiment overall and a substantially stable trend over time. EU-affiliated accounts showed higher positive sentiment compared to non-EU-affiliated accounts. Sentiment trends were correlated with key policy announcements and global events, demonstrating the intricate relationship between policy communication and the formation of public opinion. The study identified key themes and specific initiatives driving positive sentiment, including those linked to the first EU climate law and climate targets, Farm to Fork, and New European Bauhaus. Conversely, economic concerns, challenges in policy implementation challenges, ecosystem conservation status, and food system, and energy security issues appeared as associated with negative sentiment. The findings highlight the importance of targeted communication strategies, transparent response to skepticism, communication of policy processes, and stakeholder feedback collection tool enhancement to leverage public sentiment in support of the EU green transition, paving the way for future research to explore regional nuances and sentiment monitoring.

Geopolitics meets business interests: the EU and European economic security 4.5

Andreas Dür, Gemma Mateo, Lorane Visart

📚 Journal of European Public Policy

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Green Gentrification and Community Health in Urban Landscape: A Scoping Review of Urban Greening’s Social Impacts 4.3

Mahshid Gorjian

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Background: Urban greening projects often make people healthier and happier, but they also help gentrification happen. There has not been much research on how green gentrification affects health outcomes. Purpose: This scoping review looked at peer-reviewed studies that looked at how greening projects in neighborhoods that are becoming more affluent affect health, well-being, and health determinants like physical activity and affordable housing. Methods: A thorough review of the literature, which included searches in PubMed, JSTOR, and Google Scholar, found 15 empirical studies that met the criteria for inclusion. These studies looked at how people used green spaces, how much physical activity they did, how safe they felt, and how healthy they said they were. Results: Studies show that long-term, marginalized residents suffer harm by green gentrification in many ways, including feeling less connected to their community, feeling distant from green spaces, and, in many cases, using these areas less than newcomers. Conclusions: There is not enough research in this area, so more studies need to be done on mental health and cardiovascular health indicators to improve the existing body of work. There is evidence that professionals in public health, urban planning, and parks can work together to make green spaces more useful and accessible for people who live in gentrifying neighborhoods and are not as well disconnected.

Greening Schoolyards and Urban Property Values: A Systematic Review of Geospatial and Statistical Evidence 4.0

This article examines Douyin’s gamified features to investigate whether and how they facilitate online sociality. Drawing on literature on online sociality and gamification, this study demonstrates how Douyin’s gaming elements introduce a playful dimension to social interactions and examines the implications of transforming sociality into a game. Using a mixed-method approach comprising the walkthrough method and diary-interview technique, the study finds that gamified features—such as friendship badges, quantified levels, and virtual pets—can encourage social behavior and strengthen interpersonal bonds. However, these effects are primarily confined to small, strong-tie friendship groups and do not extend to larger, weak-tie networks. The findings suggest that Douyin users often display heightened awareness of how algorithms exploit their social behaviors, prompting them to adopt cautious and critical digital practices. The article makes both empirical and methodological contributions by offering a case study of gamification in socialization and demonstrating the utility of the diary-interview approach for analyzing user interactions.

Review of “Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg” 3.9

Manuel Schechtl

📚 Social Forces

The Culture of Democracy. By BinXu, New Jersey: Polity Press, 2022. 200 pp. $59.04 (hardcover); $8.14 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐954398‐4; ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐954399‐1 2.3

Ali Sarihan

📚 Public Administration Review

The discoveries of Asian Homo erectus - Homo erectus erectus (Java Man) and Homo erectus pekinensis (Peking Man) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries revolutionized paleoanthropology by providing the first definitive evidence of early human dispersal out of Africa. Asian Homo Erectus was regarded as a highly adaptable species that was able to survive, and to some extent, flourish for over a million years in varied Pleistocene climactic environments from the dense tropical ecology of Southeast Asia to the temperate ecology of East Asia. It is the forensic examination of Dental and mandibular morphology of Asian Homo erectus that provides critical insights into the dietary adaptation, ecological flexibility and paleobiology of this widespread hominin. This study synthesizes current evidence from dental metrics, enamel thickness, occlusal wear patterns, and mandibular biomechanics to reconstruct feeding ecology across different Pleistocene Asian environments. Our findings indicate that while both Java Man and Peking Man exhibit definitive Homo erectus dental and mandibular morphology, their evolutionary relationship to later Asian Hominin populations is impactful. We identify critical gaps in the fossil record and provide targeted research directions to further ascertain the role of Asian Homo erectus in the Hominin craniodental morphology continuity. The paper provides a detailed analysis of their dental, cranial and mandibular resilience congruity; a remarkable quality of adaptive plasticity that was considerably responsible for the survival of the taxa for over a million years.

Populist radical right parties in action: The survival of the mass party AlbertazziDanielevan KesselStijnFaveroAdrianHatakkaNikoSijstermansJudithZulianelloMattia, Populist Radical Right Parties in Action: The Survival of the Mass Party. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. £84.00 (paper), vii + 179pp. ISBN 9780192899736 1.9

Prosanta Sarkar

📚 Party Politics

Neoliberalism has found a willing and receptive environment in Ireland. The country is praised for its policies concerning deregulation, low taxation and importing direct foreign investment. However, the catastrophic economic crash in 2008/09 should have concluded this experiment, but it did not. This dissertation will examine the role of the Irish mass media in shaping attitudes toward neoliberal policies. By analysing the media’s reporting of the bailout and subsequent austerity and examining if alternatives were marginalised, this dissertation will seek to determine if the Irish media held, and continue to hold, pro-neoliberal biases. Drawing on theoretical and methodological approaches rooted in the critical-Marxist tradition, this work will conduct a qualitative content analysis of news articles in The Irish and Sunday Independent newspapers and The Irish Times. The assessment will explore the role of Ireland’s agenda-setting newspapers in shaping public discourse on the state’s economic policy response to the drastic failure of the private financial sector. It will also provide an understanding of how newspapers colluded with governments in setting the political and economic agendas.

Re-Stigmatizing the Radical Right: A One-Way Street? 1.7

Americans are increasingly unwilling to talk about politics with out-partisans. One potential barrier to such cross-cutting partisan conversations may be partisans’ tendency to stereotype out-partisans as lacking the deliberative traits necessary to have a productive conversation (i.e., partisan deliberative bias ). Here, three studies examine the presence of partisan deliberative bias, its relationship to cross-cutting political talk, and potential pathways to reducing partisan deliberative bias. Study 1 (two-wave panel; Wave-2 N = 695) provides evidence that partisans perceive out-partisans possess less deliberative traits than in-partisans and these perceptions are related to reduced cross-cutting political talk (at Time 2). Study 2 (experimental; N = 417) provides evidence that exposing individuals to more examples of out-partisans who display deliberative traits (vs. anti-deliberative traits) leads to increased perceptions that out-partisans possess deliberative traits, which is associated with greater willingness to engage in a political conversation. Study 3 (experimental; N = 825) provides evidence that a deliberative bias-correcting intervention can reduce stereotypes about out-party members’ deliberative traits. Further, findings from an alternative model that includes in-group favoritism suggest that perceptions of deliberative traits are significantly related to cross-cutting political talk even when accounting for affective polarization. Findings across all three studies are similar for Republican and Democratic participants. Taken holistically, these results highlight the prevalence of partisan deliberative bias, suggest that such bias reduces cross-cutting conversations, and provide preliminary evidence for the effectiveness of interventions to address this bias.

Consciousness as pre-linguistic internalized listener that filters 'meaning space' non-destructively for social familiarity-alignment markers to dramatically accelerate language and cultural learning 1.4

The police are traditionally seen as experts in crime prevention, and a large body of research supports the effectiveness of police-led prevention initiatives targeted at crime hot spots. However, there is growing interest in identifying alternative prevention efforts that do not rely on the police, especially with youth in communities that have challenging relationships with the formal justice system. This article reports on a quasi-experimental evaluation of an innovative school- and community-led crime prevention partnership that prioritized social justice and social impact. The partnership was associated with modest but statistically significant reductions in calls for service and reported offenses in the treatment areas. Results for juvenile-involved offenses were not statistically significant, but the magnitude and direction of that effect were similar to the other results. We discuss the benefits and challenges of leveraging informal social controls to prevent crime “beyond the police.”

Governing novel climate interventions in rapidly changing oceans 0.9

We examine whether and how granular, real-time predictive models should be integrated into central banks' macroprudential toolkit. First, we develop a tractable framework that formalizes the tradeoff regulators face when choosing between implementing models that forecast systemic risk accurately but have uncertain causal content and models with the opposite profile. We derive the regulator’s optimal policy in a setting in which private portfolios react endogenously to the regulator's model choice and policy rule. We show that even purely predictive models can generate welfare gains for a regulator, and that predictive precision and knowledge of causal impacts of policy interventions are complementary. Second, we introduce a deep learning architecture tailored to financial holdings data—a graph transformer—and we discuss why it is optimally suited to this problem. The model learns vector embedding representations for both assets and investors by explicitly modeling the relational structure of holdings, and it attains state-of-the-art predictive accuracy in out-of-sample forecasting tasks including trade prediction.

CONTESTIVISM: A Paradigm of Meaning, Power, and Being for Understanding Social Reality 0.7

Inattentive respondents pose a substantial threat to data quality in web surveys. We evaluate methods for preventing and detecting inattentive respondents. First, we test the effect of asking respondents to commit to providing high-quality responses at the beginning of the survey on various data quality measures. Second, we compare the proportion of flagged respondents for two versions of an attention check item instructing them to select a specific response versus leaving the item blank. Third, we propose a timestamp-based cluster analysis approach that identifies clusters of respondents who exhibit different speeding behaviors. Our findings show that the commitment pledge had no effect on the data quality measures. Instructing respondents to leave the item blank significantly increased the rate of flagged respondents (by 16.8 percentage points). The timestamp-based clustering approach efficiently identified clusters of likely inattentive respondents. Lastly, we show that inattentive respondents can have substantial impacts on substantive analyses.

The Dynamic Model of Cognitive Dominance Framework 0.6

Chris Walsh

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Why do people with similar experience, training, or intelligence make dramatically different decisions in the same situation? Traditional models, especially dual-process theories, frame this variation as a tension between fast intuition and slow analysis. But real-world decision-making reveals deeper complexity. The Dynamic Model of Cognitive Dominance (DMCD) offers a new framework: it proposes that human judgment emerges from a shifting competition between multiple cognitive systems, such as pattern recognition, working memory, probabilistic reasoning, emotional regulation, systems thinking, and more. Rather than focusing on static traits or identifying one “correct” way to think, DMCD emphasises dominance, the idea that different systems rise to influence depending on the task, context, emotional state, and individual strengths. Sometimes this alignment supports good decisions. Other times, it leads to predictable errors when the dominant system is poorly matched to the situation. This paper outlines the theoretical foundations of DMCD, supported by research across psychology, neuroscience, and real-world expertise. It introduces a method for profiling dominance patterns, explores how these patterns shift under stress or uncertainty, and offers practical applications for education, leadership, team design, and high-stakes fields like healthcare and agriculture.

Constructing the Conversation: Digital Agenda-Setting in Sport for Development 0.6

School districts historically approached conflict resolution from the perspective that suspending disruptive students was necessary to protect their classmates, even if this caused harm to perceived offenders. Restorative practices (RP)—focusing on reparation, accountability, and shared ownership of disciplinary justice—are designed to address undesirable behavior without harming students. We study Chicago Public Schools’ adoption of RP and find that suspensions and arrests decreased, driven by effects for Black students. We find null effects on test score value added, ruling out meaningful average declines. We estimate a 15 percent decrease in out-of-school arrests, consistent with RP substantively changing student behavior. (JEL D63, D74, D91, I21, I28, J15, J16)

Reality Bites: Partisan Beliefs as Enforced Norms 0.6

Andrea Robbett, Peter Hans Matthews

📚 Economic Journal

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How do partisan social norms influence stated factual beliefs about politics? We report the results of two online experiments, conducted on the eve of the 2024 US election, in which participants evaluated factual political statements. In a motivating experiment, we first elicit social norms over reported beliefs and find that Democrats and Republicans identify divergent partisan norms over factual statements. In our main experiment, we find that these norms influence stated beliefs: Learning about which statements co-partisans believe are appropriate for the group and/or that co-partisans could punish or reward them both cause respondents’ factual statements to be less accurate and more in line with partisan biases.

Detecting Formatted Text: Data Collection Using Computer Vision 0.6

This article proposes the creation of constituency juries to enhance accountability and check oligarchy in representative governments. Constituency juries would be made up of randomly selected citizens from an electoral constituency who exercise oversight over that constituency’s elected representative. Elected representatives would be required to give a regular account of their actions to the constituency jury, and the jury would have the power to sanction the representative. In addition to this general model of constituency juries, I offer a more specific institutional design that shows how the general model can be operationalized and realistically incorporated into existing representative governments. In contrast to lottocratic proposals that replace elections with sortition, constituency juries are a promising way to combine the two to address the oligarchic tendencies of elections in representative government.

The Moral Foundations of Populist Communication: A Semantic Network Analysis of Political Parties’ Social Media Discourse in a Multiparty System 0.5

Public agencies face diverse expectations from external actors regarding their responsiveness. However, systemic research explaining how institutional pressures arising from these expectations, particularly formal rules and informal norms, motivate public agencies to respond remains limited. By conducting a national‐scale field experiment among 949 provincial‐level agencies in China, this study tests the effect of regulative pressure from formal rules and normative pressure from informal norms on their responses to freedom of information requests. The results show that legal regulative pressure and social normative pressure make agencies more likely to respond within the legal timeframe and provide the requested information. Legal regulative pressure and professional normative pressure increase the likelihood of agencies providing additional information beyond the requested information. The findings suggest the critical roles that institutional pressures play in enhancing various degrees and aspects of bureaucratic responsiveness, with pressure from formal rules being more effective in enhancing responsiveness than informal norms.

Journalists as actors of democratic resilience: Independent online media in autocratizing Hong Kong 0.5

Chinese social media platforms are taking the initiative to cultivate relationships with both the government and users by proactively elaborating on platform rules, aiming to enhance the legitimacy of governance. This article seeks to understand the proactive governance of Chinese social media platforms and the underlying power dynamics by analyzing how official administrators construct governance legitimacy through boundary discourse. We conduct a critical discourse analysis of video texts published by official administrators on three large social media platforms: Douyin, Kuaishou, and Bilibili. It is found that official administrators legitimize platform governance by shaping three types of boundary discourse: deviant expulsion, traffic rewards, and community pest clean-up. Proactive governance by official administrators represents efforts by social platforms to balance top-down regulatory pressures with the autonomy of platform governance and to seek ways to legitimize the governance framework in a manner that is more acceptable to users. Going beyond a technology-centric concept of platform governance, the article seeks to understand the governance system of Chinese social platforms through the boundary discourse of official administrators.